Foreword
Legal Aspects of Combating Corruption: The Case of Zambia is a timely and welcome undertaking by Dr. Kenneth Mwenda, particularly in the current context of Zambia’s fight to rid the country of this scourge. The book is also timely because it is dedicated to the memory of some of the most illustrious Zambian intellectuals, Professors Lawrence Shimba, Alfred W. Chanda, Dr. Enock Simaluwani, and Mr. Luke Muleya, all of whom taught law at the University of Zambia’s School of Law. These great men, who passed on all too early at the prime of their careers, were advocates and champions of the principles of good governance and justice. They were fighters against corruption, a scourge that has impacted negatively on development aspirations of so many countries.
Since coming into power in 2002, the Government of President Levy Mwanawasa spearheaded a campaign of zero tolerance against corruption. This was necessitated by the allegations of massive corrupt practices carried out by the previous Government of President Frederick T. Chiluba from 1991 to 2001. A Court in the United Kingdom issued in May 2007 a judgment against President Chiluba and others for corrupt practices committed while in office and ordered them to pay back millions of dollars to the Government of Zambia.